watch this video with former NASA Scientist Richard Hoover, 23.31 min, uploaded by Open Minds Production, Feb 19, 2014: former NASA Scientist Richard Hoover shares revelations with journalist Lee Speigel from the Huffington Post. Hoover talks about the fact that someone may have destroyed evidence of life on Mars. This took place at the Open Minds 2014 International UFO Congress and Film Festival in Fountain Hills Arizona.
International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance
Published on Necessary and Proportionate.org, Info and Link received by Newsletter-Email, From: HURIDOCS, Date: Feb 11, 2014:
Dear reader, Privacy is a human right: People need it, governments have to protect it and business has to respect it. Too often, this is not the case.
Today is the day we fight back: Thousands of individuals, international experts and a coalition of NGOs from all around the globe demand an end to unchecked mass surveillance. Privacy is dear to everyone of them: It enables them to speak freely. To meet others without being watched. To know that it is their decision to share information about themselves. Continuer la lecture de « International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance »
The Geopolitical Dimensions of the Coup in Ukraine: A Struggle for Power and Influence
Published on Global Research.ca (first on World Socialist Web Site WSWS), by Peter Schwarz, Feb 27, 2014.
“When the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, Dick wanted to see the dismantlement not only of the Soviet Union and the Russian empire but of Russia itself, so it could never again be a threat to the rest of the world,” wrote former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his recently published memoirs. Gates was referring to the then-Secretary of Defense, and later US Vice President, Dick Cheney.
The statement sheds light on the geopolitical dimensions of the recent putsch in Ukraine. What is at stake is not so much domestic issues—and not at all the fight against corruption and democracy—but rather an international struggle for power and influence that stretches back a quarter of a century … // Continuer la lecture de « The Geopolitical Dimensions of the Coup in Ukraine: A Struggle for Power and Influence »
US Culture of Secrecy & Security Overreach
Interview with Daniel Ellsberg, re-published on ZNet, by AlJazeera, February 26, 2014.
In 1971, US military analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked thousands of pages of a top-secret study on the Vietnam War to the American press. The Pentagon Papers, as the leak would come to be called, revealed previously shrouded layers of deception on the part of the US executive branch regarding decades of military involvement in Indochina … // Continuer la lecture de « US Culture of Secrecy & Security Overreach »
Playing Real-Life Monopoly
Published on Counterpunch, by Alfredo Lopez, Feb 25, 2014.
It might seem like a game of Monopoly played by real monopolies and, with a tired groan, one might be tempted to dismiss it as part of an ugly but irreversible trend. But the merger of cable-television mammoth Comcast with its runner-up competitor Time-Warner Cable is a huge piece of news whose outcome, if it goes forward, will be crippling to communications in this country … //
… The courts can stop this merger. Most analysts doubt they will. Continuer la lecture de « Playing Real-Life Monopoly »